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A Spy Windfall Looms from Russian Chaos

Conditions are ripe for Kremlin rats to offer secrets for safe passage out

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Jeff Stein
Jun 25, 2023
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On April 1, 1953, a U.S Naval attaché in Helsinki picked up a scrap of intelligence: A Finnish border guard had “attempted to offer condolences on Stalin’s death to [his Soviet] counterpart,” but “the latter broke into tears, and said they were all worried about their future, and feared military purges in a struggle for power.”

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